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  • One delayed. More to go. BLAIR PALAISE 350 ORG
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    One delayed. More to go. Stop the coal and gas mining giants by becoming a 350.org Climate Defender today.

    Dear Neville,

    Six months ago, Australia held the fate of the world’s climate in its hands. Thanks to your help, our movement has delayed the largest new coal mine in the Southern Hemisphere planned for Queensland’s Galilee Basin – a climate and reef-destroying project.

    The work we’ve done together to slow down new fossil fuel projects in Australia is not only important, but effective. But the fight to protect our climate has a long way to go.

    After a major campaign to get the Commonwealth Bank to end it’s involvement with Adani’s mega-coal mine in the Galilee Basin, our Government is now indicating that it will use taxpayer dollars to fund this monster project. They are also trying to change the laws that allow community groups to challenge environmentally controversial projects.

    It’s up to us to stand up to our Government’s pro-coal agenda and climate denial rhetoric and stand strong together to keep Australia’s coal in the ground for a brighter future.

    Will you take a stand to help protect our climate by donating $19 each month as a 350.org Climate Defender?

    In our fight against fossil fuel expansion, we’re up against some of the biggest multinational corporations in the world who are taking what’s ours in their relentless pursuit of profit and fossil fuels that we simply can’t burn.

    And our governments continue to push ahead with more plans to open and expand coal and gas mines not only in Queensland but in New South Wales and Western Australia too, with huge implications for all of us.

    That’s why we need your help to stand up and fight back.

    350’s strategic campaigns are having a significant impact as they hit the fossil fuel industry where it hurts – campaigning for super funds, banks universities and councils to divest from fossil fuels and fighting back some of the largest fossil fuel projects on the planet. 350’s divestment work has led to almost 400 institutions – including the Newcastle City Council, ACT Government, Norwegian Sovereign Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, moving away from fossil fuel investments. Thank you for helping us to achieve this.

    But winning slowly can, sadly, be the same as losing where climate change is concerned. Unless the end to coal, oil and gas comes swiftly, the damage from global warming will overwhelm us.

    That’s why we’ve got to move faster than ever before.

    Will you help to speed up the fight for our climate by becoming a 350.org Climate Defender today and donate $19 or more each month?

    350 is a small group, but we’re having a real impact. As a Climate Defender, you’ll be right there alongside us funding our strategic campaigns to keep Australia’s fossil fuels in the ground and saving our climate.

    You’ll help to stop carbon bombs like Adani’s Galilee Basin coal development seeing the light of day. If this one project went ahead it would cook the climate and wreck the Great Barrier Reef.

    You’ll help by supporting our divestment campaigns that target big superannuation funds, councils and universities to weaken the fossil industry’s stronghold on our politics as we race for a fossil free future.

    And, when all else fails, you will be supporting peaceful protest and the remarkably brave people who step up and put themselves on the frontline to stop dangerous fossil fuel expansion.

    Join 350.org today as a Climate Defender and together we will do all we can to protect our climate.

    Thank you for your commitment to save our climate, I deeply respect the work that you have done so far.  Whatever you can give at this time will help to make a big difference for our climate and our future.

    I look forward to your support and to working with you!

    Warm wishes,

    Blair Palese for the 350.org Australia team

    P.S. Knowing that Australia’s coal mining plans are a clear and present danger to our entire planet makes what you and I do today incredibly important. Become a climate defender by donating $19 a month and save our climate.

  • Malcolm Turnbull’s test ADAM BANDT
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    Dear Neville,

    I’ve just come from Question Time and it’s official. Tony Abbott is no longer our Prime Minister.This is very welcome news because the country has a chance for a new direction. Australia deserves better than the degrading, offensive and damaging politics we experienced under Tony Abbott’s leadership.

    Malcolm Turnbull said he will respect the public’s intelligence and seek to lead by persuading. This is a good start, but the test will be whether it extends to acting on the things that matter most, like:

    • Real action on climate change
    • Equal marriage for all loving couples
    • Releasing children who are locked up in detention
    • A strong social safety net

    The early signs are that the Greens have our work cut out for us in keeping this government accountable.When I asked Malcolm Turnbull today in Question Time about climate change, he said he’d be sticking with Tony Abbott’s woeful pollution cuts. He also said he won’t bring on a vote on the cross-party marriage equality bill that could see Parliament remove discrimination from our marriage laws this year.

    Malcolm Turnbull has a chance to impress, but so far the signs aren’t good. The coming months will reveal whether he is the Prime Minister that many people hope he will be, or whether the Liberal Party has just put a fresh coat of paint over the cruel and dangerous policies of the Abbott government.

    We will watch with great anticipation.

    Thanks for standing with us,

    Adam

  • The good news and the bad labor

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    The latest politics update from the Australian Labor Party | Unsubscribe
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    Neville —

    Well, that was an eventful 24 hours. The good news is we have a new PM. The bad news is he says he backs all of the policies of the old one – nothing that really matters has changed. In order to get the top job, Malcolm Turnbull has sold out his beliefs on climate change, marriage equality and a whole host of other issues.

    This weekend we go to a by-election in Canning. With the switch in prime minister we have to switch our campaign advertising too.

    But remaking ads doesn’t come cheap and while the Liberals have spent $1 million on the by-election, Labor hasn’t been as to raise that kind of money.

    Tonight we go to air in Canning with this ad:

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    Can you help us make these last minute changes so we can send a message to the Liberals this weekend: you can change the salesman but we don’t like what you’re selling! 

    Thanks for your support,

    George Wright
    National Campaign Director

  • We’re happy the Liberals are having a bad day, but…

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    Dear NevilleLast night Australians celebrated the political demise of Tony Abbott. Here is a list of his contributions to a just and democratic Australia.

    We celebrated last night. But this morning we woke up to a hangover in Malcolm Turnbull.

    In his first speech, Turnbull said he would lead a “thoroughly Liberal government” committed to his core values of “freedom, the individual and the market”.

    We don’t claim to be fluent in Liberal, but here’s a rough translation.

    Freedom: The freedom for big business to exploit working people for outrageous profit. The freedom to send jobs overseas. Freedom, to a Liberal, means the protection of privilege.

    The individual: Individual bargaining between a powerful boss and a worker held down by unfair work laws. The celebration of individual profit without fair tax contributions. The triumph of the individual over the community.

    The market: Profits come first, people come second.

    Liberal Party values speak to a system of winners and losers, of exploitation and isolation. Our values seek to build a community that respects everyone’s contribution. 

    Neville, we think you share our values. So maintain your rage.

    We still have a Liberal Government to defeat.

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    In unity,

    Luke Hilakari
    http://www.weareunion.org.au/

  • A new day? CLAIRE SOLAR CITIZENS

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    Dear Neville —

    It’s not every day you wake up to a new Prime Minister (or Prime Minister designate, to be precise).

    Within a few hours of Malcolm Turnbull challenging Tony Abbott for the leadership of the Liberal Party he’d won a party room ballot. Now, with a new leader of the country we’re presented with a fresh opportunity to secure Federal government support for the solar future the overwhelming majority of Australians want to see.

    Under Tony Abbott’s leadership the Coalition Government did its best to destroy Australian solar. We need to be sure that Mr Turnbull doesn’t follow with the same old-hat harmful and destructive policies his predecessor was so keen to pursue.

    Can you write your personal message to our new Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, asking him to Stand Up For Solar, including a goal of at least 50% renewable energy by 2030?

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    Yesterday Mr Turnbull announced to the nation that he wanted to be the type of leader who “explains the challenges and how to seize the opportunities”, a leader who “respects the people’s intelligence”. 

    We’re glad to hear it. Here on the sunniest continent on earth, the majority of Australians want to see more solar and renewables, not less. The Australian people want to harness our plentiful solar resources to power our economy, create jobs, cut electricity bills and leave a better world for our children. I reckon that’s simple and pretty smart for the country too, but he needs to hear from you. Let Malcolm Turnbull know what you think by writing your personal message – use our simple online tool by clicking here.

    Stand Up For Solar is our nationwide campaign to make this dream of a sunny future a reality. Dismayed by the Abbott Government’s dinosaur thinking on solar and renewables, we saw that Australian politics was in desperate need of a circuit breaker, a way to raise debate in this country out of the doldrums.

    So far we’ve made strong progress, with the ALP committing to at least 50% renewable energy by 2030 in its National Platform. This week dedicated Solar Citizens volunteers are ramping up our snap campaign in Canning ahead of Saturday’s by-election, hitting the streets, tracking the candidates, getting hundreds of solar signs up in front yards and readying to rally at the candidates’ offices on Thursday.

    And if you were watching the live coverage of last night’s leadership spill, you may have seen a shining Solar Citizens sun popping up in the background at Liberal candidate Andrew Hastie’s press conference!

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    I’ll be writing my message to Malcolm Turnbull, telling him that I hope to see a step change from Canberra soon – and that I expect nothing less than full support for a strong, solar and renewable future for all of us.

    Let’s grab this moment together: make sure your personal email is one of the first to hit our new PM’s inbox. Send a quick message calling on the new leader of our nation to back jobs, growth, investment, affordable power – and sunshine! – by clicking

    For sunshine, every time,

    Claire, National Director

    Claire O'Rourke

    PS. The government might still be working out what’s next, but we’re clear on our vision for a clean renewable energy future. Make sure our new Prime Minister knows that thousands of people want a new vision from the Federal government – send Malcolm Turnbull your personal message today using our easy online tool.

    Solar Citizens
    http://www.solarcitizens.org.au/

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    Solar Citizens is an independent community-based organisation bringing together millions of solar owners and supporters to protect and grow solar in Australia. You can keep up with Solar Citizens on Twitter or like us on Facebook.

  • Nothing has changed labor

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    Neville —

    We have a new Prime Minister, but nothing has really changed – not when it comes to what matters. Malcolm Turnbull has confirmed he’s sticking with Tony Abbott’s horrendous policies.

    He’s told the media that he’s not going to improve the abysmal climate targets, despite what he’s previously said. He’s not going to legislate marriage equality. And he’s also backed all the measures in the budget, that’s the GP tax, $100,000 degrees, cuts to pensions, and cuts to schools and hospitals.

    So, when you’re talking to friends and colleagues tomorrow by all means celebrate the reprieve from onions and speedos, but don’t let them imagine we’ve had a shift on what’s really important.

    You’ve already taken action which has helped to bring down Tony Abbott as Prime Minister, thank you for helping to change Australia. But we’re now looking at a different kind of fight. This won’t be an easy fight, but we need to win it. We need to win it for students, pensioners, for those who rely on bulk billing, for our kids’ education and for our climate.

    Thanks for your support,

    George Wright
    National Campaign Director

    P.s. With the change in PM we might be looking an earlier election. We’re going to need to be ready for it. Can you contribute so we can hit the ground running?